Judge Dredd For PS2

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Rebellion brings the law to a console.

By IGN Staff

Judge Dredd Vs. Judge Death, the first-person shooter based on England's most popular native comicbook hero, will appear on PlayStation 2 as well as PC, Vivendi Universal announced today. NDA Productions, one of VU's games studios, will publish the title, which is under development at Rebellion.

While Judge Dredd is best known in the states through the godawful Hollywood film of the same name, the Dredd comic strip has run in the UK for 25 years of consistent success. The game is to draw its inspiration entirely from the comic, featuring many characters from its rich supporting cast -- the Dark Judges, Judge Anderson, and so on -- as well as locations throughout Dredd's beat, Mega-City One. The PS2 version's technology is entirely Rebellion's own creation, a version of its Asura Engine optimized to take advantage of the hardware's particular strengths.

Jason Kingsley, Rebellion CEO, says, "Judge Dredd has always been an obvious choice as a videogame licence, but no one has ever managed to put across the atmosphere and awesome visual scale of the comics in a game before. Now a combination of our powerful Asura engine, and our love for the character will enable us to put out the Judge Dredd game that gamers and comics fans have been demanding for so many years. In VU Games we have a partner with a great deal of experience in publishing and marketing cutting edge games, and we look forward to a long and successful relationship for Dredd and other future titles."

The PS2 version of Dredd vs. Death is due for release in Europe in the latter half of 2003. No American release has been confirmed as yet, but we will pass on any news that arises in the future.